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EUSTIS — Levi Kaplan was on fire at the Lake County Spelling Bee. The fifth-grader at Seminole Springs Elementary School in Eustis correctly spelled F-L-A-M-B-`E for the win at the Eustis Community Center. "It's great and it's been a really good experience," the 10-year-old said. "It's been a lot of fun." Levi and Montverde Academy student Dhyey Shah, 13, went back and forth Friday for about 10 rounds until the word "prescient" tripped up Dhyey. He turned and snapped his fingers because he remembered how to spell it correctly. "I knew it," he said later. Levi, who had been studying the list for about a month, said,...

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EUSTIS — Levi Kaplan was on fire at the Lake County Spelling Bee.
The fifth-grader at Seminole Springs Elementary School in Eustis correctly spelled F-L-A-M-B-`E for the win at the Eustis Community Center.
"It's great and it's been a really good...

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